Injective seeks to serve as a foundation for diverse DeFi applications, offering essential infrastructure like an on-chain order book for building decentralized exchanges, prediction markets, and lending protocols. The INJ token is central to the platform, used for protocol governance, securing the network through staking, incentivizing developers, and capturing value from decentralized applications. Injective aims to facilitate a wide range of trading and yield-generating activities, supporting interoperability across multiple layer-one blockchains, including Cosmos and Ethereum, thereby broadening the scope of DeFi opportunities.